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Sub Prime Stick-[Wo]men
Submitted by varley on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 15:10.Andrey Klevchuk sent me this amusing PPT. With cost-cutting, the presentation graphics are appropriately austere. Another notable feature; it was an Open Office PPS file, a sign of the gathering momentum behind the use of the free Sun Star Office Suite, which is at worst no more bloated than MS Office 2003. Office 2007 is beyond the pale and reminds me of those pictures of families of 6 on Honda 50's in the the developing world. I take that back. Honda 50's a
Quotes and Jokes
Submitted by varley on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 01:37.Some favorites
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Harold Abelson
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Douglas Noel Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding
something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
Q. Why do Computer Scientists confuse Halloween and Christmas?
A. Because Oct. 31 = Dec. 25
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Anon.
Murphy's Laws: A Compendium
Submitted by varley on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 18:10.Another Pauli - asked if he would lecture at 9:00 am his riposte was "Impossible. I never go to bed that late."
Quantum Mecanics - Whn yo come to a fork in the road, take it
Submitted by varley on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:46.The humor of physicists
"God does not exist and Paul Dirac is his prophet
Dirac and Bohr
Submitted by varley on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 17:53.These titans of theoretical physics got on very well but if you tried to categorize them by archetypal personality they were opposites. Bohr had to have an audience, active or passive, to do his thinking. When no other genius was available a graduate student would do to sit and listen as Bohr paced his Copenhagen study thinking out loud, interspersed with lengthy periods of cogitation. Dirac on the other hand was not only very shy and introverted but precise.
